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Astronaut Christina Koch smiles as she gives a “thumbs up” sign shortly after being extracted from the Soyuz MS-13 crew ship that brought her home after 328 days in space. Credit: NASA TV A new record for the longest single space mission ever undertaken by a woman was triumphantly set earlier today (Thursday, 6 […] 
Spacewalker Rex Walheim works to outfit the exterior of Europe’s Columbus lab during STS-122. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Launching to space is undoubtedly an exciting and terrifying experience, all rolled into one, as millions of pounds of thrust combine in a controlled explosion to blast a group of humans beyond Earth’s […] 
Spacewalker Rex Walheim works to outfit the exterior of Europe’s Columbus lab during STS-122, which launched ten years ago, this week. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Ten years ago, this month, Space Shuttle Atlantis sprang from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, to kickstart the final phase […] 
Commander Peggy Whitson (back right) affixes her crew’s Expedition 16 patch to a surface aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as outgoing Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (back left) looks on. Photo Credit: NASA The event was almost an anticlimax. On 19 October 2007, ten years ago today, Peggy Whitson became the first […] 
A week after returning from space, Jack Fischer has accrued 136 days in orbit from his first mission. Peggy Whitson, meanwhile, now stands as the world’s eighth most experienced spacefarer, with 665 days across her three missions. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace A week since their return from low-Earth orbit, Expedition 52 astronauts Peggy […] 
Wrapping up the third long-duration mission of her career, Peggy Whitson has now spent over 665 days of her life away from Planet Earth. Photo Credit: NASA The world’s most experienced female space traveler is tonight enjoying her first full day back on Earth, after returning from a third trip to the International […] 
SpaceX launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Credit: AmericaSpace/Alan Walters For the ninth time this year, the roar of nine Merlin 1D+ engines pummeled Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in […] 
A successful test fire of the Falcon 9 for next week’s CRS-12 launch, NET Aug 14. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace/Jeff Seibert UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: […] 
The Soyuz MS-05 rocket is launched with Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli will spend the next four and a half […] 
When Fyodor Yurchikhin’s crew returns to Earth in September, Expedition 53 will officially begin, under the command of NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (seated right). His crew will consist of (from left) Joe Acaba, Aleksandr Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei, Sergei Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli. Photo Credit: NASA, via Mark Vande Hei/Twitter For the first […] |
 NASA will test fire the 212 foot tall core stage of SLS on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. Programming starts at 4:20 Eastern, test fire from 5pm. Click here for more details...  |
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